FDNY Commissioner Daniel Nigro didn't wade into the stink over former fire commissioner Sal Cassano's son's arrest for defecating on a lawn chair. (David Wexler / for New York Daily News)

FDNY Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro stepped over a steaming pile of controversy Saturday as he deflected questions about Firefighter Joseph Cassano's pooping arrest in New Jersey.

“It’s quite unfortunate,” Nigro said about the June 10 arrest where Cassano — who became a firefighter in April after he left the department in disgrace in 2013 over racist tweets — allegedly defecated on a stranger’s lawn furniture following a night of drinking in Lake Como, N.J. “We will see how it plays out. It’s all we can say now.”

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Cassano, the son of former FDNY Fire Commissioner Sal Cassano, has been suspended by the department for 30 days. As a probationary firefighter, any kind of trouble with the law, no matter how minor, could lead to termination, officials said.

“He is on an unpaid suspension and the disciplinary process is playing out,” Nigro said as he visited an open house event at Engine 307/Ladder 154 in Corona, Queens, where area residents were given free smoke detectors.

Joseph Cassano, son of retired FDNY Commissioner Sal Cassano (r.), at his graduation ceremony in April 2018. (Todd Maisel / New York Daily News)

Cassano, 28, will be returning to Lake Como next month to answer charges of criminal mischief and criminal trespass in Belmar Municipal Court.

He is accused of “recklessly or negligently damaging property” by “having a bowel movement on (the victim’s) lawn furniture, leaving feces behind” when he was intoxicated, according to court papers.

After that, he allegedly entered a stranger’s “closed garage and (went) to sleep.”

Belmar police gave Cassano a summons and sent him home.

The scandal-scarred smoke-eater already had a checkered FDNY career. In 2013, he quit the FDNY's Emergency Medical Service after he was caught posting a string of hateful comments against minorities, women and Jews on his personal Twitter account during his first year on the job.

The EMT's vile tweets included: “I like Jews about as much as hitler #toofar? NOPE.”

He also wrote, “Getting sick of picking up all these Obama lovers and taking them to the hospital because their medicare pays for an ambulance and not a cab.”

Because he quit before he was fired, Cassano was allowed to rejoin the EMS in 2016, and take the firefighter exam. He graduated from the Fire Academy on April 18.

Before his arrest, Cassano was a member of “The Harbor View Boys” : firefighters who work in Engine 162/Ladder 82 in Great Kills, Staten Island. He had been moved there from Engine 247 in Borough Park, Brooklyn, shortly after his graduation when legislators in the Orthodox Jewish community balked at the assignment, given his racist rants years ago.

Before rejoining the department, Cassano apologized for the tweets. He also met with a prominent rabbi and toured the Museum of Tolerance.